Almost two months ago, October 2, Peanuts celebrated the 75th year since it debuted. Late this month Peanuts is again in the news as Charles M. Schulz‘s birthday, November 26, 1922, and, of course, the re-airing re-streaming of A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving both occurred recently. Following are some news stories covering both events and more. […]
Kallaugher and Horsey on Editorial Cartooning Tomorrow Kevin KAL Kallaugher and David Horsey chat about the State of the Art and Cartooning the State: We will have a fun and free-wheeling conversation about cartoons, politics, commentary and creativity. We will welcome comments and questions from listeners. Kal talks with two-time Pulitzer winning cartoonist and columnist […]
Rea Irvin, the [New Yorker]’s first art editor, is best known for creating Eustace Tilley, the monocled dandy whose upturned nose has graced our pages for a hundred years. Irvin established the stylish and refined look of The New Yorker, brought in countless new artists, and also penned many early covers that display his graphic […]
NPR has released their list of Best Books published in the year 2025. The Graphic Novels category includes a few books whose authors have comic strip credentials. J vs. K by Jerry Craft and Kwame Alexander – – – Buy the book Two bestselling, Newbery Medal-winning kids’ book authors and friendly rivals team up to […]
An addition to your “Complete” Calvin and Hobbes to make it complete, the Complete Tom the Dancing Bug, and the Deer Hunting sports cartoons of Gregg Klees. Let’s start off with a reminder that there is only one day left to be a part of the Kickstarter that guarantees you receive volumes one and two […]
Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for November 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection, vol. 12 by Milton Caniff The saga continues in Terry […]
Clay Jones draws! The Norman Rockwell Comic Strip! Score Bunny by Henrik! The Award Winning Peter Kuper! A Clay Jones Update and New Drawing Clay Jones is making remarkable progress with an attitude that is positive and retaining his sense of humor. Clay writes: This caricature of Trump is the first drawing I have attempted […]
One of the first things Lincoln Peirce did when he arrived at Colby as a first-year student in 1981 was go to the office of the Colby Echo and pitch the student newspaper on a comic strip. That strip, which ran in the Echo until Peirce graduated in 1985, was called Third Floor, named after […]
Dykes to Watch Out For, a widely syndicated strip cartoon series, ran from 1987 to 2008, ending only after [Alison] Bechdel achieved success with her first graphic memoir, Fun Home: A Family Tragic Comedy, later made into a Broadway play. Fun Home was followed by Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama (2013), then The […]
Bravo to Konopacki for making intelligent use of a moment in Casablanca that has become an insipid cliché in other hands. Saying “I’m shocked! Shocked!” merely makes the point that someone is pretending not to have known something they certainly did, which, most times, is obvious. (Yawn) But Konopacki uses it in perfect context: In […]
Bookstores are rebounding, The Philosophical Implications in Calvin and Hobbes, Go with King Features’ Popeye, The Phantom, and others on a Sea Cruise, and cherished children’s book covers are transform into ecological posters. But we start with the non-anniversary of a political animal. November 7, 1874 – First cartoon of the Republican Party elephant (Not) […]
And then there was the time… when Schott’s Significa and Davey Jones, Michael Maslin and Rea Irvin, Nebelspalter and Rick McKee, Steven Heller and Peter Kuper, and Lynda Barry and Lynda Barry again were all included in a weekend roundup. And then there was the time… Schott’s Significa Included a Chapter on Comic Conventions John […]
Cartoonist Garrick Tremain is 84, widowed and fighting a highly aggressive form of cancer, but he has not lost his sense of humour. Take this example. The local museum in Arrowtown asked him which night would be best for the launch of his new book. “Which knight?” he replied. “You’d better make it Sir Grahame […]
In 2004 The Chicago Tribune set the record straight: First off, there is no Tom the Dancing Bug. Nowhere in Ruben Bolling’s 700-odd “Tom the Dancing Bug” comic strips does an insect, named Tom or otherwise, shake its groove thang. Second, there is no Ruben Bolling. No, “Tom the Dancing Bug” — an esoteric, form-bending […]
Below are some comic and cartoon books scheduled for October 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Our mid-month October Hey Kids! Comics! list had scores of books. When we started getting news […]